From the inside flap copy of this album: “The brightest thought of many bright minds”…well, heck, I’m not going to argue with that. Published by Random House in 1939, and using Peter Arno’s New Yorker cover from January 1938, this is the last of the Albums produced before the Unites States entered WWII. The cover depicts a Cafe Society moment,
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The Spill Talks Mirror Balls and Tracking Porcupines with Seth Fleishman
I took notice when Seth Fleishman’s first cartoon, uniformed cows standing over a table, appeared in the New Yorker in the issue of April 4, 2016 (it appears below). Sometimes a new cartoonist’s work (the drawing itself and/or the caption) will appear slightly awkward (my first New Yorker drawing fits both those categories), but Mr. Fleishman’s work seemed like it
Read moreAdvertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Pt. 17: Sam Cobean
No New Yorker cartoonist milked the humorous possibilities of (mostly female) total nudity like the late Sam Cobean (an example above), but you wouldn’t know it by the ads below. Mr. Cobean’s two collections, Cobean’s Naked Eye, and The Cartoons of Cobean (arranged and selected by Steinberg, with an Introduction by Mr. Cobean’s good friend, Charles Addams, published posthumously) are easily
Read moreBarbara Shermund on the Cover of…Esquire
When Warren Bernard (of SPX) offered his scanned collection of advertising work by New Yorker cartoonists for use on this site, he included some bonus scans. Among them were non-advertising work by New Yorker contributors that appeared in Esquire. Looking through them the other day, Barnbara Shermund’s covers for Esquire popped out on the screen. Here are the four covers
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